Brief Cases: Yogurt shop moving into Five Points area

Atlanta-based yogurt company Yoforia plans to open one of its shops in Five Points at 1210 S. Milledge Ave., where Jittery Joe’s coffee shop currently operates.

Jittery Joe’s plans to move from the converted service station it’s been in for 15 years to the former Hodgson’s Pharmacy building.

Yoforia should open in the fall after revamping the Jittery Joe’s space for the yogurt shop’s needs and design, which includes signature bright orange and green colors.

The Yoforia concept features self-serve yogurt machines and a topping station that enable customers to create their own orders from 12 flavors and toppings such as seasonal fruit, granola, breakfast cereal favorites, cookies and candies.

When the shop opens, around the start of football season, it will stay open until 11 p.m. on weekdays and to midnight on weekends.

Jittery Joe’s changing Five Points location

After 15 years, the Five Points Jittery Joe’s, which set a great example of adaptive reuse in converting an old filling station into a coffee bar, will be moving. The coffee shop will relocate from its spot on the Five Points intersection corner to the now empty former Hodgson’s Pharmacy building, Jittery Joe’s owner Bob Googe said. Hodgson’s moved into the Hodgson Terrace building next door last summer.

Jittery Joe’s will share the old Hodgson’s Pharmacy with the Hub Bicycles store. Googe said he has to move by the end of June and hopes to be open in his new space by early July. Besides renovating the inside of the new space, Googe wants to build a patio area for his customers.

Googe attributed his decision to relocate to an increase in rent and limited parking.

Natural Baby moves, returns to Oconee

The Natural Baby, a Watkinsville business that sells all natural baby merchandise such as cloth diapers, baby clothing, toys and skin-care products, temporarily closed recently with designs on moving to Five Points in Athens.

Owners Rebecca and Tripp Almy had planned to move into the former Jingle’s space on South Lumpkin Street, but some building issues forced them to rethink their plans. The Natural Baby has reopened in its same spot, 12 Main St., in downtown Watkinsville.